• Horoscopes for 9-2-2025
  “My father nam’d me Autolycus, who being, as I am, litter’d under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsider’d trifles.”

  Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (IV.iii.22)

  Horoscopes for 9-2-2025

  • Mercury into Virgo 9/2 8:24 AM
  • Mars square Jupiter 18°35’ Lib./Can. 9/4 9:58 PM
  • Full Moon 15°22’ Pis./Vir. Eclipse 9/7

  Horoscopes for 9-2-2025

  Virgo

  I’m inordinately fond of the passage I use this week. I first stumbled across it when I was reading The Winter’s Tale in preparation to seeing the play at a University of Texas satellite thing (Shakespeare in the Barn). I had a passing familiarity and an undergraduate understanding of the play, its possible meaning, and location, in the canon. That line leaped out at me. I’ve used it, in the past thirty years, maybe longer, back and forth across my own work. I used it, most commonly, in respect to Gemini, as they are the original “littered under Mercury” sign. Likewise, though, so is Virgo, “littered under Mercury.” It’s that very Mercury, and its relative influences, that are under scrutiny this Very Virgo birthday week. It’s about thinking, it’s about analysis, it’s about analyzing what we just analyzed. It’s about collecting a tons of points of data, and maybe, not quite right, not sure what we do with it all. But collect the information. Look at the world, obviously other people don’t get enough of a story, so it’s time to get all of it. Maybe a little extra. That passage is for you, and about you. Who knows? It might be important.

  Libra

  I answered a Libra question, about this eclipse up and coming, I answered the question with a single, terse retort.

  “Eye of newt.”

  It’s a simple, short-handed code for a longer explanation, after the link. But in the situation, and coming up in Libra land? A simple, short-handed expression works. Not long, Not drawn out. A simple point that can represent a whole message is what counts. In my simple example? “Eye of newt.” That stands for the passage from the Witches in the Scottish Play, mixing up an unholy broth that makes everything happen. In my own industry, though, the shorthanded version I use is about finding the right balance, and what are we looking for in this week’s Libra stars? A chance. A point, a simple way to get this balanced. Simplest answer? Soup. Or Some kind of broth brewed up in a cauldron. Or maybe, just find the right balance of herbs and spices to make it all more palatable. Hence? “Eye of newt.”

  Scorpio

  I’ve owned a variety of tablets over the years. Just a toy, the first one, which was prohibitively expensive, down to the current one which I tend to use for communications, still do astrology charts, and read books on it? I think I’m down to about three or four e–readers, different ilks, but the same kind of material: books. Each variation of the tablets, maybe half-dozen now, each one had its own case. I realized that I had a surfeit of cases that don’t fit anything, one was leather, and completely worn out, but all the cases? What they had in common, some were cheap, some expensive, some minimalist, some maximum? They all fit devices I no longer own. One was given to the old girlfriend’s kid. Another I sent back in, to get a recycle credit. I keep the most recent one as a back-up unit, but other than that? I no longer own, or have in my possession, the older tech. However, digging for a cable the other afternoon, I realized I had two fairly decent cases for older tablets. The actual tech I no longer own. Current place has a “recycle” bin, and into that recycle bin went the old cases. I’m sure, given enough time, I could have sold them, or re-homed them in a more useful manner, but at what cost of time, patience, and dealing with the public at large? How much time do you want to put into making the Scorpio life simpler?

  Sagittarius

  Over the years, I was taught that the way a particular astrology chart will onboard information is dictated by the placement of the natal Mercury. As an astrologer who looks at birth charts, I’ve road-tested the theory and found some merit in its application. There’s an adjunct to that notion, Mercury, being an innermost planet, is never more than forty degrees away from the Sun, which means, except in rare occasions, Mercury is in the same sign, or just one sign over from wherever the Sun is. Given that the eclipse action is in Virgo, on a Virgo/Pisces axis? How our Sagittarius selves acquire new data is teased and tested. I offered up a few inner secrets about an inner planet in the first half, then pointed out how this information is under pressure to perform in the second half. It’s a time to take in new data, but try taking it in differently.

  Capricorn

  There’s a focal point wherein action and innovation meet. There problem? This focal point is also at an intersection of perceived problems and hassles. One fishing buddy pulled up a broken fishing line, after horsing a large fish for a few moments, ‘Well, (many bad words), can’t win for losin,’” but it came out as a drawled expression, after the cussing. Inventive use of the language and some choice expressions about the parents of that fish he lost. So what he did? He stripped off the last few feet of his fishing line, then tied the exact same kind of bait back on the line, and he cast that right back where it was. I’m sure there’s a picture on the web or social media someplace, pretty big fish. Took two tries, and the first attempt felt like, at the moment, a heart-breaking loss. Which it was, in a way, but that second attempt? Worked well. Might’ve been the exact same fish, we’ll never know for sure. We do have our suspicions, though.

  Aquarius

  Word for Aquarius? Word for your Aquarius week? “Adjacent.” For some of you, this is Aquarius adjacent. For some of you, this is an adjacent train wreck worth watching, and for some? It means “nearby.” The problems, challenges, and obstacles? Not really in the sign of Aquarius itself, but next to it? The problems are not really in Aquarius, but adjacent? See how that works? The little hint that I like to drop, if it’s not in your sign, then why are you going to make it your problem. There is the great cry, “Not in my back yard!” Does NIMBY apply in the Aquarius situation, situations? I understand at least one will start to explain how it’s the neighborhood, and that means it applies to all of us, but it’s not your backyard, not your Aquarius domain, and therefore? Not a problem you should tackle, at this time. It’s adjacent, sure but how much can you reliably take on?

  Pisces

  I returned a piece faulty equipment, a computer device that clearly had manufacturing defects. I dropped the package off to be shipped, and the pre-paid mailing label worked just fine. Scanned into the system and it was away. Then, the return authorization form, in PDF format, sat on my computer “desktop” for a few days. I know it’s the slowest, least expensive, most marginal of carrier services; therefore, the package will take at least a week to arrive, another week to be scanned into inventory, and third week to be accepted or rejected for replacement. That’s three weeks away. Pisces: it’s — at least — three weeks away. Can you patiently wait? The other side, not my first rodeo with this, but the first time, I kept hitting the refresh button, like the day after I dropped the package off with the shipper. That just leads to my continuing frustration with the whole scenario. Drop it then try not to hit that refresh button every ten minutes. This isn’t like an online auction or sale, or something.

  Aries

  It’s a weird kind of question, and one I haven’t faced lately, nor do I plan to look at it too closely, not in respect to my own life. But for Aries? There’s a question about work getting in the way of love (romance), or, flip that around? Romance interferes with work. I’d look to Mr. Mars and Mr. Jupiter as the culprits, and then? I’d hope for an understanding girlfriend, someone who gets that I have to work in order to afford the nice things that she likes. I have to go to work. Or, we can go out and spend money. Not a question I like to face, and not one that sits well with me, because, even though I’m a very lazy Sagittarius, I learned the hard way to earn the money before I spent it. That’s what this is about, too. I suppose, then there’s the two sets of questions, one about “love or money?” The other about “earn first, or spend first?” I think, over the years, and the time I’ve spent on this planet, I’ve learned that the earning has to come before the yearning, but that’s me, and I’m not Aries. Still, my suggestion stands.

  Taurus

  Some of my happiest finds have been “cheap” hardware. Digging through a closet, I came across a small box with phone adaptors, telephone line (RJ 11), twisted copper pair line, what used to be known as a “phone jack?” The back or side of a laptop would have an RJ-11 modem port, and then I would carry a variety of adaptors to plug in and connect to the wired world. This predates “wireless,” and I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure some of the actual plastic hardware and wires dates back to old East Austin, pre-gentrification. 30 years and counting? Sure. There was a time when I could find this kind of material in local bins, material that cost a dollar or less. Likewise, carrying that notion forward, I’ve made it habit to buy certain tech items on the cheap, especially like the connectors, the adapters, the power cables, and the data things. If a two-dollar cable ceases to function properly? I can toss it. No great loss. The trick is learning how to buy on the cheap, and that uncovered box of old phone goodies reminded me, I need another USB to thing-thing. Need to get that. Where’s the cheapest source?

  Gemini

  This really happened. I co-signed for a service (cell phone) for a buddy because I had, quote, “That old man credit.” Years go by. My buddy switches carriers, phones everything. Service was cancelled, but there was a disputed unpaid balance lingering on his credit, and therefore, in my name, too. The account was actually paid off, but the debt had already been sold off to a collection agency, and we know what a racket that was, back in the bad old days. Eventually, a collection agent got me on the line, and started bugging me for the hundred bucks. Don’t even think it was that much, but in the big picture, it was the principle. Poor collection agent, that operator got me one cranky afternoon when it was hot, I was miserable, and the then-girlfriend had just dumped me. That collection guy hit the “play” button, and I unloaded. I doubt the ire was truly equal to the supposed crime, but the debt wasn’t real to begin with, so, yeah, the agent got an earful. I had a chance to unload days, weeks, maybe months of pent-up frustrations because of their error. Justified? I’m not sure. Did I feel better? Yes. In reality, I thought maybe I should apologize for unleashing such vehement and disparaging content on an unsuspecting soul but the deal was, it was already paid, and their collection was invalid. Me? I needed to vent. When faced with a similar situation, make sure you pick the correct person to unload upon.

  Cancer

  The idea is simple enough. The concept, what we’re aiming for, as a target, as a goal, as a possible destination for the sign of the crab, the Moon Children? Cancer wants a digital display that looks analog. I spent years with a certain computer font that I used for the symbols of the zodiac. It was simpler, it was installed, and it was a font that I paid for. Regrettably, the software went away and along with it, my typeface — the set of symbols. I still have some remnants of the material, but what I started looking for, and then looking at the up and coming lunar phases, and how that affects the tides in the times of the Moon Children? What we’re looking for is digital that looks analog. At one time, I stumbled into a website that could convert handwriting into a computer font. Means I could type with my own handwriting, which, if you’ve ever been subjected to my handwriting, you’d realize is no big win. Should’e been a doctor. Moving in and through this eclipse cycle? Look for ways to make Cancer’s analog digital. Or make the digital appear to be analog.

  The Leo

  I spent several weeks suggesting preparations, variations on themes, but the basic elements — in Leo — were all the same. Single word? Preparation. We’ve got about three days to finish what was started, about three days to get it together, and about three days figure it out before the big, Full Moon (eclipse) happens. Longer than that, really, but for the sake of brevity, assume you read this on the first day it’s available? Think: three days to finish. Given the mutable mercurial ministrations of matters? There’s really more time, but I can easily see a distraction or two, “Wow, look at that,” possibly interfering with the immediate goals and tasks of The Leo, and that is the source of the problem. Distractions. So when I suggest three days to finish this up? You might find some room for error in that calculation, but I did it like that — for a reason.

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